On April 20 and 21, Ulyanovsk hosted the events of the final full-time stage of the 1st All-Russian Student Olympiad in Ethnography. The intellectual competition was attended by 60 students of higher educational institutions from 11 regions of the Russian Federation, who scored the most points in the correspondence qualifying round.
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N. N. Miklukho-Maklay of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Tishkov emphasized that the Olympiad is one of the best initiatives of the Ethnographic Commission of the Russian Geographical Society, which once supported the grant application of Ulyanovsk colleagues.
The I All-Russian Student Olympiad of the Russian Geographical Society in Ethnography was held in two stages on the basis of the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after Ilya Ulyanov (UlGPU). The first correspondence round took place on February 8, 2023, on the Day of Russian Science. It was attended by 612 students aged 18 to 25 from 33 regions and nine federal districts of the Russian Federation. Students from the Ulyanovsk, Amur, Orenburg, Voronezh, Saratov regions, Perm Territory, the city of St. Petersburg, the Republic of Crimea, Udmurtia, Chuvashia and Tatarstan, who successfully passed the qualifying stage, came to the city of Ulyanovsk to take part in the final. The author of the grant project was a member of the Council of the Ulyanovsk regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Geography and Ecology of the UlSPU Azat Idiatullov.
— There was no such event in Russia that would draw our attention to such an important area for the country as knowledge about peoples, knowledge about religion, culture, our identity. This is the first Olympiad. The fact that you are in this hall is the result of serious work, the result of the preliminary stage, which was attended by more than 600 applicants from each federal district, from many regions of Russia. This shows, in our opinion, a great interest in this kind of intellectual competitions, – noted, addressing the finalists, the chairman of the Ulyanovsk regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society Dmitry Travkin.
On April 21, a solemn closing ceremony of the Olympiad and honoring the winners and prize-winners of the competition took place at the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University.
According to the results of two rounds of the 1st All-Russian Student Olympiad in Ethnography, the winners were:
— Maksim Kazimirov (Chuvash Republic) — diploma winner of the 1st degree;
— Polina Isaeva (Udmurt Republic) — diploma winner of the 2nd degree;
– Alexander Solodovnik (Amur Region) – diploma winner of the 2nd degree.
Seven participants of the Olympiad were awarded the title of winners: Alexander Maltsev (Kursk region), Pavel Kamardin (Ulyanovsk region), Oleg Tsyganov (Udmurt Republic), Daria Perevozkina (Amur region), Alexander Grafov (Ulyanovsk region), Nikolai Vasilenko (Amur region), Alina Shabunin (Orenburg region).
The All-Russian Student Olympiad in Ethnography was organized by the Ulyanovsk Regional Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, the Ministry of Education and Education of the Ulyanovsk Region, the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after Ilya Ulyanov as part of the grant project of the Russian Geographical Society.
